It sounds like a plot rejected from “The X-Files” for being too on the nose: A UFO cult asks Israel for land in Jerusalem so it can build an embassy for aliens. But the Raëlians were serious. For decades, the…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of families from an insular Hasidic sect in northern Israel are systematically marrying off girls as young as 12 to husbands who are not much older, as welfare services fail them and community members fear speaking out, Haaretz reported…[Continue Reading...]
A formerly ultra-Orthodox woman, who was found dead in her car on Sunday after apparently taking her own life days earlier, had written a short autobiography describing the rigors of living within the Gur Hasidic sect and the pain she…[Continue Reading...]
The High Court of Justice pressed the government on Sunday over its failure to implement last year’s ruling requiring effective enforcement of military service obligations against ultra-Orthodox (haredi) draft dodgers in a hearing on motions to hold the state in…[Continue Reading...]
Members of an ultra-Orthodox cult, led by convicted sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland, illegally entered the West Bank city of Nablus overnight between Thursday and Friday and rammed their car into a Palestinian, security officials said and footage showed. The…[Continue Reading...]
A Christian doomsday cult of Chinese exiles is behind a widespread influence operation that made use of AI-generated content to try to evangelize Jewish Israelis online, according to researchers from the Israel Internet Association. The Church of Almighty God, also…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, community…[Continue Reading...]
The Israeli Knesset’s Immigration and Diaspora Affairs Committee held an urgent hearing today on the state's efforts to rescue children from the radical Lev Tahor cult in Guatemala and integrate them into Israeli society. As of now, approximately 10 families…[Continue Reading...]
Have the requirements in ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) boys' schools taken a backseat to core curriculum? According to a recent study by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), the Education Ministry has failed to take decisive action on non-compliance in the ultra-Orthodox schools.…[Continue Reading...]
Despite constituting 14 percent of the working-age population, the ultra-Orthodox community generated only four percent of Israeli tax revenues in 2023, costing the government billions and adding thousands of shekels to the average non-Haredi worker’s annual tax burden, a study…[Continue Reading...]
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